, 1887-06-23

the matter q: q ~NH-idE II snip
building establishment hore, Just
east OF tho .aw mill. il would lie an
easy matter to secure the investment
Of 4 Iargc amou.t of capital in such
an enterprise. Hga,- and ships can
be built night here more cLcapIy than
at any other spot N the west. We
have ron right i.rn, with good foun-
dry and machine -2.p facilities. We.
have a mill sufficiently large for all
purposes, and IIarer- and every kind
Of machinery already il operation
We have men in uur midst amply ca
pable Of managing -uchan enterprise.
Il has been long time since finer
mode}ei or better appointed ship
sailed into this h@rbor than the Car
ondalct," built b. Capt j. II. Stetson,
of this city. There are other compe-
tent builders here Who has 4 little
leisure to tsks hold Of this thing
Would not the mill company give e
perpetual lease of sufficient ground
to establish q frst~cla>s yard, 1t
would make q fine market for their
lumber, Many others would also be
benefited and the whole city would
feel an impulse forward.
Tacoma dies hard on the University
question, ana Utterances emanating
from there on that subject are degen-
Grating into the tLuncst kind of blus-
t"r 10 bolster real estate prices, The
enterprisinS{) Tacoma correspond
ent Of the P.-I again comes to the
front with an intervieW-this time
with one j. C. Howell, who is repre-
sented rs saying that he doesn't know
how the report got started that the
University had been located at Port
! Townsend; also that conference in
august Will decide which Of the many
locations bidding for it will be
chosen Sc. The gall of these fel-
lows who scribble about things of
which they know nothing is really
impressive. Port Townsend is the
only place that has ever offered any
scrt of bid for the University. thus
far It's board Of trade rendered an
offer to the annual conference last
August, and that offer was accept
ed At the next session of con
ference, 10 be held at Olympia in
September next, the trustees of the
institution, who have incorporated
and are collecting money and taking
deeds, viii report what they have
done. The next conference viii not
| decide" between rival claimants for
the location. The contract with Port
Townsend is being carried out, and
the matter has gone beyond the point
of selecting a location.
All that we have said concerning
WILDLY Island applies with fullest
force to the San Juan group. Port
Townsend is the natural center Of
trade for these islands. 4 good
steamboat with cheap fares would
bring nine tenths of this trade to US.
Why not secure it? Simply because
it suits somebody's convenience to
run the old Phantom on this route,
which the people believe to be unsea-
worthy, and which is certainly disa-
greeable and wet and every unsat-
isfactory. On the Seattle route are
two elegant boats-the Washington
and the Idaho-which are comfort
able, fast and clean. The fare is Just
half to Seattle that it is to Port
! Townsend, but the distance is twice
as great. Add to this the fact that
those boats run on time and make
| their trips regularly, while the Phan-
tom is nearly always behind time,
and it is certainly wonderful that a
single dollar of that trade comes to
Us, or that solitary passenger travels
this way. We are really desirous of
making great change in these mat
ters. We must agitate and crowd
until this evil is remedied, We know
that these steamboat men are standing
in their o#n light. They are losing
| money steadily in this way. They do
not carry Que passenger where they
ought to carry ten. They do not
carry ono ton of freight were they
might carry twenty. Our merchants
could just as we'll double their sales
as not Give Us a good, careful, reg
ular steamboat service and let our
merchants compete little more for
outside trade, and we can double the
business Of Port Townsend in a year
and tone up values wonderfully.
Ne are informed that the people of
Wildly Island are now thoroughly
awake to the advantage of uniting
their Interests with those of Port
| Townsend and turning their trade
this way Whatever bui ds up Port
Townsend, increases the value of all
property on WILDLY Island. If Port
| Townsend today had the population
OF Seattle, real estate would be treb-
led in value on WILDLY. The market
would be much better and the island
ban;ftted in every way. There is
need great need-for a much better
mode of intercommunication 1t
ought to be possible for a Goupeyille
man to come to Port Townsend. do
his shopping and return home for an
expense Of che dollar and the loss of
not more than half a day of time. 1t
least two trips per day should be
maze 10y the ferry. and not over half
a dollar charged each way. Coupe
vile is much nearer (so far us time
/ and ullDoy i rotlrarpa5l to SCn.tIo